Vaughan Bell writes at Mind Hacks: Oliver Sacks has just published an article on ‘Hallucinations of musical notation’ in the neurology journal Brain that recounts eight cases of illusory sheet music escaping…

Adult film star, author and lecturer Conner Habib returns to discuss pornography, sexuality and why both continue to be controversial in the United States. Can sex be a revolutionary act? Learn the answer to this and more in this episode of the DisinfoCast.

Belief in powerful shape-shifting lizards is also trending. Public Policy Polling has released the results of a telephone survey this past month of 1,247 registered voters which measured belief in various conspiracy…

Is one purpose of the NYPD’s controversial and wide-ranging “Stop and Frisk” policy to instill entire communities with the feeling of a military occupation? Via Gothamist: A federal trial challenging the constitutionality of…